History TearJerker / BravelyDefault

* In any of the endings, [[spoiler:the main characters are given the opportunity to choose which world to return to. Ringabel chooses his home world -- i.e., one of the ones where Tiz, Agnes, and Edea likely killed his entire surrogate family while awakening crystals, and were themselves killed by Airy.]] This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before [[spoiler:Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally slaughtering them.]]

-->'''Kamiizumi:''' You have already set foot on the path of carnage. No wonder I could not stop you... forgive me Braev... your daughter cannot be stopped.

* While nowhere near as sad as the previous examples, one particular death is worthy of mentioning: [[spoiler: the little girls in the Summoner sidequest, who were pretty much {{Mind Rape}}d into killing each other over fairies' wings]]. Because it happens in a sidequest, it's relatively minor, but it can still serve as an effective PlayerPunch, partially because of how unexpected it can be to certain players.

* Edea, being a DefectorFromDecadence, ends up having to fight many people she was very close to, including Einheria, who was like a sister to her, Kamiizumi, her mentor and teacher, and her own father. The fights with all three lead to some incredibly tragic interactions. It doesn't help that all of them are [[AntiVillain some of the more morally decent members of the Enternian forces.]]
** Also not helping is how [[spoiler: after Olivia dies]] Agnès accuses Edea of being a traitor.
* Really, the death of nearly any Job Master.

** Kamiizumi's death [[spoiler: If you fight him after beating Braev and the very potent WhatTheHellHero speech he gives Edea]]
-->'''Kamiizumi:''' You have already set foot on the path of carnage. No wonder I could not stop you...forgive me Braev...your [[spoiler: daughter]] cannot be stopped.
* [[spoiler: Ringabel, once you realize exactly who he is and why he has amnesia.]]
** To explain further - [[spoiler: Falls into lava after the girl he loves attacks him over a misunderstanding. Ends up getting tortured by an irredeemable monster under the guise of healing him, then gets healed for real and back on his feet just in time to make the final confrontation with the main characters. Only to arrive too late to witness them all being slaughtered by an EldritchAbomination that they originally trusted. And then he falls from a pillar of light into another world entirely. Owch.]]
* In the normal ending, Agnès outright ''pleads'' with [[spoiler:Airy]] to go back to how she used to be, and is genuinely hopeful when it looks like [[spoiler:Airy]] might just be a victim of DemonicPossession. No matter what [[spoiler:Airy's]] doing or how monstrous she's become, Agnès still wanted to believe there was a chance they could be friends again...

* Speaking of deaths, [[spoiler: Olivia's is cruel as well]]. It happens [[spoiler: literally minutes after she and Agnès finally find each other again]]. It even acts as a temporary [[spoiler: CynicismCatalyst for Agnès, who becomes a lot more bitter afterwards]]. Thankfully, it doesn't stick, but it's still sad.

* In any of the endings, [[spoiler:the main characters are given the opportunity to choose which world to return to. Ringabel chooses his home world -- i.e., one of the ones where Tiz, Agnes, and Edea likely killed his entire surrogate family while awakening crystals, and were themselves killed by Airy.]]
** [[spoiler:This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally slaughtering them.]]
* In one chapter, the Matriach of Florem mentions that a promising vestling who could have replaced Olivia was abandoned years ago by the Orthodoxy due to her illness. This is the same chapter where it is clarified that Victoria hates the Orthodoxy because they abandoned her as a child. The strong implication being that ''she'' was the water vestling.

** [[spoiler:This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally slaughtering them.]]

** [[spoiler:This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally slaughtering them.]]
** [[spoiler: The false ending has him instead return to a point after Airy slaughters the other three. He places a flower on the deck of Grandship and stands silently mourning Edea. After the otherwise somewhat hopeful scenes of Tiz in Caldisla and Anges at her temple, it is just heartbreaking to see Ringabel alone in the world.]]

** [[spoiler:This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally slaughtering them.]]

** [[spoiler:This is mitigated by the fact he goes to just before Airy attacked, letting him alert his group and make sure they avoid the fate that would have befallen them otherwise, i.e. Airy brutally Slaughtering them.]]

* In any of the endings, [[spoiler:the main characters are given the opportunity to choose which world to return to. Ringabel chooses his home world -- i.e., one of the ones where Tiz, Agnes, and Edea likely killed his entire surrogate family while awakening crystals, and were themselves killed by Airy.]]

* In the True Ending, [[spoiler:Tiz suddenly collapsing after 6 months of peace, right as Agnes and Edea stop by for a visit. It turns out Ouroboros was telling the truth about a Celestial possessing Tiz's body. When the Celestial decides that it's time to return what it borrowed, Tiz immediately falls to the ground, implying that the Celestial's presence was the only thing keeping him alive and awake after he fell into the Norende Ravine at the start of the game.]] This is further complicated in the Special Movie added in the UpdatedRerelease: [[spoiler:Good news: Tiz was unconscious, but alive, and seemed to have been put in a healing chamber to recover. Bad news: It's some time far in the future, and a new danger seems to have arisen.]]

* It can be very sobering to see Praline a la Mode performing only at night in the dingy bar aboard the Grandship in Chapter Five after you defeat her and terrify her into retiring. A fallen pop idol forced to perform in a seedy gig with a drunken and potential abusive audience.

** Kamiizumi's death [[spoiler: If you fight him after beating Braev and the very potent WhatTheHellHero speech he gives Edea]]]
-->'''Kamiizumi:'' You have already set foot on the path of carnage. No wonder I could not stop you...forgive me Braev...your [[spoiler: daughter]] cannot be stopped.

* It can be very sobering to see Praline a la Mode performing only at night in the dingy bar aboard the Grandship in Chapter Five after you defeat her and terrify her into retiring. A fallen pop idol forced to perform in a seedy gig with a drunken and potential abusive audience.

* While nowhere near as sad as the previous examples, one particular death is worthy of mentioning: [[spoiler: the little girls in the Summoner sidequest, who were pretty much {{Mind Rape}}d into killing each other over fairies' wings]]. Because it happens in a sidequest, it's relatively minor, but it can still serve as an effective PlayerPunch, partially because of how unexpected it can be to certain players.

** Also not helping is how [[spoiler: after Olivia dies]] Agnés accuses Edea of being a traitor.

* In the normal ending, Agnés outright ''pleads'' with [[spoiler:Airy]] to go back to how she used to be, and is genuinely hopeful when it looks like [[spoiler:Airy]] might just be a victim of DemonicPossession. No matter what [[spoiler:Airy's]] doing or how monstrous she's become, Agnés still wanted to believe there was a chance they could be friends again...
* Despite how early it happens, Owen's death is very sad. Not only by itself, but also due to his father's reaction: he tries to put up a good front and not show much of his sadness to the party, but it's nonetheless obvious that the poor man is devastated, to the point that he ends up bedridden sometime after Agnés and her friends leave. Only after [[spoiler: Egil starts to live in Caldisla]] does he start to recover.

** Also not helping is how [[spoiler: after Olivia dies]] Agnes accuses Edea of being a traitor.

* In the normal ending, Agnes outright ''pleads'' with [[spoiler:Airy]] to go back to how she used to be, and is genuinely hopeful when it looks like [[spoiler:Airy]] might just be a victim of DemonicPossession. No matter what [[spoiler:Airy's]] doing or how monstrous she's become, Agnes still wanted to believe there was a chance they could be friends again...
* Despite how early it happens, Owen's death is very sad. Not only by itself, but also due to his father's reaction: he tries to put up a good front and not show much of his sadness to the party, but it's nonetheless obvious that the poor man is devastated, to the point that he ends up bedridden sometime after Agnès and her friends leave. Only after [[spoiler: Egil starts to live in Caldisla]] does he start to recover.

* While nowhere near as sad as the previous examples, one particular death is worthy of mentioning: [[spoiler: the little girls in the Summoner sidequest, who were pretty much {{Mind Rape}}d into killing each other over fairies' wings]]. Because it hapens in a sidequest, it's relatively minor, but it can still serve as an effective PlayerPunch, partially because of how unexpected it can be to certain players.

* In the normal ending, Agnes outright ''pleads'' with [[spoiler:Airy]] to go back to how she used to be, and is genuinely hopeful when it looks like [[spoiler:Airy]] might just be a victim of DemonicPossession. No matter what [[spoiler:Airy's]] doing or how monstrous she's become, Agnes still wanted to believe there was a chance they could be friends again...

* Really, the death of any Job Master who isn't a CompleteMonster qualifies.

** To explain further - [[spoiler: Falls into lava after the girl he loves attacks him over a misunderstanding. Ends up getting tortured by an irredeemable CompleteMonster under the guise of healing him, then gets healed for real and back on his feet just in time to make the final confrontation with the main characters. Only to arrive too late to witness them all being slaughtered by an EldritchAbomination that they originally trusted. And then he falls from a pillar of light into another world entirely. Owch.]]

* [[spoiler: Ringabel, once you realize exactly who he is and why he has amnesia.]]

* Really, the death of any Job Master who isn't a CompleteMonster qualifies.

* Tiz is kept up at night due to nightmares resulting from the [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown destruction of Norende]] and the loss of his brother Til due to the same incident. His looking out for Egil because the latter reminds him of Til just makes it more heartrending.]]
* Mehpelia initially seems like a sadistic monster out to defile all beauty in the world purely ForTheEvulz. But after you defeat her, you can read [[ApocalypticLog her memos in D's Journal]], where you learn [[spoiler: she used to be a perfectly nice girl, who even had a loving boyfriend, until she herself was driven insane by the very fairy wings she ended up using to corrupt others. You later find out her boyfriend died on a sea voyage to prove his love to her. The contrast between her first few journal entries and [[SanitySlippage her last]] is both nightmarish and tragic.]]

* Edea, being a DefectorFromDecadence, ends up having to fight many people she was very close to, including Einheria, who was like a sister to her, Kamiizumi, her mentor and teacher, and her own father. The fights with all three lead to some incredibly tragic interactions. It doesn't help that all of them are [[AntiVillain some of the more morally decent members of the Enternian forces.]]

** Mehpelia initially seems like a sadistic monster out to defile all beauty in the world purely ForTheEvulz. But after you defeat her, you can read [[ApocalypticLog her memos in D's Journal]], where you learn [[spoiler: she used to be a perfectly nice girl, who even had a loving boyfriend, until she herself was driven insane by the very fairy wings she ended up using to corrupt others. You later find out her boyfriend died on a sea voyage to prove his love to her. The contrast between her first few journal entries and [[SanitySlippage her last]] is both nightmarish and tragic.]]
** Edea, being a DefectorFromDecadence, ends up having to fight many people she was very close to, including Einheria, who was like a sister to her, Kamiizumi, her mentor and teacher, and her own father. The fights with all three lead to some incredibly tragic interactions. It doesn't help that all of them are [[AntiVillain some of the more morally decent members of the Enternian forces.]]

* Tiz is kept up at night due to nightmares resulting from the [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown destruction of Norende]] and the loss of his brother Til due to the same incident. His looking out for Egil because the latter reminds him of Til just makes it more heartrending.]]